Yourself?

Meritocracy

Watching the people singing outside gave me a few strange thoughts:
1)Is a belief in God consistent with a belief in Meritocracy. (not saying that one is more correct than the other. They're both challenged around the world)
2)The way we worship has changed over the years, and it has gone from push(a single point of trusted content, or authority) to being more participatory. It's more like Youtube than it's ever been (in the sense that the community is involved in defining/creating the message).
3)There are certain nuances in almost everything that exist in our world, and only a few of us will see these hidden messages in almost everything we do. And because these messages are hidden, when we notice them, are they really there, or are they just in our heads?
4) Well nuances are just about reading the subtext isn't it. In a weiqi game, there's always the game that appears on the board, but there's also the game that appears in the players' heads. And what appears there, is a vision of the future (or two different futures), but one present. And everyone tries to realize their vision, but there is eventually only one reality, that is neither vision.
5) So in the weiqi game, it would appear that the strongest move to realize your vision would be best. But if you take the reality of the game, and see it as just a subset of the players' reality, then that would be a bad result.
6) One player wins, while the other loses, and the player that wins did not gain anything, while the player that lost did not learn anything
7) The right move in the bigger game, would be a move that stretches both players abilities, and makes them learn and discover and be stronger at the game of weiqi at the same time.

posted by Downhere. @ 12:02 pm